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November 16th 2015:Get Beef Off The Menu At The Lion Buffet with Bill Given

Humans and lions have coexisted for tens of thousands of years but rapid expansion of livestock farming in Africa has led to greater conflicts, with large numbers of lions killed in retaliatory and preemptive conflicts with livestock. Wild lion populations have declined 50% in the last 20 years, with an estimated 23,000 remaining. Listed by the ICUN as Vulnerable, reducing conflict between large predators, people and agriculture requires new tools with an understanding that accounts for both agricultural practices and predatory behavior. Conditioned Taste Aversion is a non-lethal, humane conse

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Bill Given

Wildlife biologist and Research Associate of the Denver Zoo, Bill Given has worked with everything from butterflies to African lions. Bill is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Botswana based Condition Taste Aversion research project, where for the first time, CTA is being applied toward mitigating predation on livestock by lions. Bill’s decades of work on CTA may provide a revolutionary conservation tool for conflict resolution between predators and people around the globe. As Program Manager of the Colorado Natural Heritage program, Bill coordinated a team of 50 field scientists to survey and document the state’s rare and imperiled species, and of the world’s 75 organizations, this wor